About Ghri Ziffe
Who am I? Well, I'm not sure yet - but my best bet is as follows: I'm years old boy living in Tauranga, New Zealand. One thing I do know for sure though, is that I have a strong drive to create and enjoy art. You can see this in both my films (live action and animated) and my Advanced Dungeons and Dragons modules. That's about it.
Politically, I'd say I'm strongly opposed to the right. I don't know about labels, so I don't want to call myself anything because that might include beliefs I'm opposed to.
I wouldn't be surprised if God exists, but I don't think there is much point worshiping such an abstract concept. Religeon has helped many people out of deppresion, addiction etc... so I'm not against it, but it can also be used as a way to sow hatred against vulnerable minorities, so...
My favourite things
I don't have a favourite colour or lucky number. I don't understand why people have those.
My favourite movie changes quite reguarly. But I predict I'll still like these movies in 10 years time:
- Police Story (1985) This movie is insane! The opening shantytown car scene... the bus scene after that... the final fight in the mall... I love this movie so much and would recommend it a thousand times to anybody who even slightly likes action movies. Police Story 2 and 3 are also enjoyable.
- Mad Max 2 (1981) A great documentry about the outback of Australia. The car chases are absolute cinema (insert black and white Martin Scorsese with his palms facing towards the camera). I do prefer this slightly to Mad Max 4.
- Lone Wolf and Cub series (1972-1974) Oddly serene for movies where a guy kills people and they turn into red paint fountains. I really love the dynamic between the assasin father and his toddler son Daigoro. All 6 movies were filmed in a short time span so Daigoro looks the same age!
- Mas Max 4 (2015) Great editing. Very orange.
- Gone in 60 Seconds (1972) I picked up this one in a random town on the way down to Wellington. It starts of really boring (I was falling asleep!) with lots of conversations cut over stock footage. Then suddenly you get a nearly hour-long chase across Los Angeles with over 90 cars, both police and civilian crashing into each other. I had no clue what was going on but it was amazing.
- Hard Boiled (1992) My favourite John Woo movie (although I wouldn't blame you if you said The Killer or even A Better Tommorow!) about a guy called Tequila (!) who shoots bad guys. The final 40 minutes in the hospital are a masterwork.
- Ong Bak (2003) Tony Jaa and his stunt team are really talented, which makes up for the low budget of this film. The setpieces of the film are quite varied and well made (although Jaa's character does get into cage fights one too many times, in my opinion). My personal favourite moment is when Tony jumps into the air and grabs his ankles, kneeing a bad guy into the wooden platform below.
I like eating at Harbourside and Picknica in Tauranga. I really like Virgin Pina Coladas. Fijian pancakes with jam are really good too.
Why create a website?